So far this episode's tasks seem to mirror those of the first season to some extent. This time a new supervillain was introduced--"Bee Sting." Her segment was punctuated by many horrified gasps from the eight-year-old, who has a bit of a bee phobia after being stung by a wasp last summer. This one seemed a little extreme to me, mainly because I couldn't think of any way that it could have been made safe--there were genuine, stinging bees involved. (I suppose that the contestants had to fill out medical forms ahead of time, so they'd have known if anyone knew they were allergic, but those things can come on quickly.) This was really the first time I've seen anything I'd consider questionable in terms of safety issues.
That was really the only challenge this episode; the rest of the show was taken up with a costume makeover (necessitated by the main task, which ended with Bee Sting pouring honey all over everybody). Again, there was one individual, Hyper-Strike, who did not care for his costume--remember in the first season, Tyveculous didn't like his new costume and got in trouble because he told Stan that he did at first?--Hyper-Strike undoubtedly saw that episode, too, and was obviously not going to fall into that trap. Unfortunately this time around Stan didn't agree, and he was later called on the carpet for being resistant to change... The new costume, by the way, would probably have been fabulous back in the 80s. Now, not so much.
This week's removal was Mindset. Great name, imaginative costume. Apparently not so good at the group dynamics, and seemed genuinely confused as to why he was let go.
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Mindset was probably my favorite of the bunch, but he was thinking about the contest the wrong way round. When he refused to play Bee Sting's game, he was refusing the play the producer's game. If it was just the villain it would have been a legitimate heroic choice (although discussing it with his teammates first or having an established leadership position would have helped there), but he was screwing up the TV show too and that's not going to work.
Otherwise his social ineptitude, particularly if he managed to combine it with actual insightfulness into the others' personalities, would have made good drama and his heroic persona would have helped them fall into a good super-team dynamic. They'd have the leader in the annoyingly bossy Defuser, the puzzle-solver/ tactician Mindset, Hyperstrike and Whip-Snap as infantry, a mother figure in Hygena and the ingenue Limelight.
And if Limelight turns out to be the mole and Mindset was right that she was acting dumb, Stan really ought to bring him back in and apologize.
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